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There is a heartless Christ outside his door. A long story explains how he got there. He is made of hand tooled copper over a meter tall from the waist up, a representation of the Sacred Heart…
His people have a way of bundling themselves up like little babies in the early morning by the rural roadside when they waited for the morning bus. They squat a particular way to keep out the cold,…
In his heart and mind, he is retired. He started being retired when his close friend told him one evening not long ago how everyday from hereon is just added bonus. He found this statement rather intriguing,…
A bit of a funny conversation with his kids: “You know everything! Are you God?” He suspected sarcasm at first. But no, it was said in earnest. A child’s innocent gratitude for a matter-of-fact answer for what…
How do artists tell if what they do is beautiful? In turn, how do viewers of art tell if the art they’re looking at is any good? According to George Dickie who wrote “Aesthetics: An Introduction”, Plato…
Filipinos need to clarify their understanding of Western and local artistic history. We have a problem acquiring a whole big picture of both histories. The problem has to do with the fact of distance. When Westerners read…
Using the diagrammatic representation of a tree, how would we correctly represent Philippine art history? Would it be grafted to the trunk of the Western art history tree, growing out like a branch from the European High…
Do a blog!” That’s what his friend said, one evening, over drinks set on a glass table. Over there, the ash tray, some saucers, half empty now. His eyes follow a trail of glass upwards to the…
The looking glass is invisible. It is only a plane without a visible surface. And so we always mistake it for reality until we see how everything inside it is reversed. We feel more than know if…
The folk understanding of chicken lore requires a clear distinction made between a rooster and a cock. A rooster is only a male chicken. Cock suggests always the possibility of fighting represented always by its ideally regal…
He woke up as if from a nightmare he could not recall. He closed his eyes again, tried to recapture even the faintest image of a clue that might bring back into mind the story or picture…
One has to wonder how to correctly define independence. We are not a political subject of any colonial master. That much is at least true. And yet, it is often asked if we have truly come into…
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